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March 2019

March 29, 2019

Psychic connections are neither here nor there: on Susan Howatch and spiritual direction

I first got the idea that I should receive spiritual direction around the time I...

March 17, 2019

Please do not ask me about Jung: for the Sundays of Orthodoxy and Gregory Palamas

This post, written on the Sunday of Orthodoxy on the Old Calendar and of Gregory...

March 04, 2019

The place of the problematic: for the Sunday of the Last Judgment

For much of my life, I have felt that I have inhabited two separate worlds...

February 2019

February 02, 2019

Nunc dimittis: on Candlemas for me

When a brother of mine in the Latin Church asked about a week ago if...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

Orthodoxy is creative: Rowan Williams on Holy Athanasius of Alexandria

On this Feast of the Holy Hierarchs Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria, I wanted to...

December 2018

December 03, 2018

Angels and archangels, all night, all day: on Holy Michael the Archangel and my guardian angel (St Philip’s Fast #5)

I don't know how it is for Protestants in communities in which I did not...

September 2018

September 08, 2018

My wife is not ‘my Virgin Mary’ (Nativity of the Theotokos)

What do I say about Mary Godbearer on this Feast of her Nativity, the first...

September 04, 2018

Another cantoring dream – quilting Greek chant, hipster evangelicalism, and the Anglican realignment

The thing I remember about the beginning of this dream was that it was a...

September 03, 2018

The Francis Ideology

Years ago, my friend Sam Rocha wrote a piece on the then-newly elected Pope Francis...

July 2018

July 14, 2018

Transference, mystagogy, and freedom from intellectual second-guessing

Two Fridays ago at the Feast of Ss Peter and Paul on the New Calendar, I...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Repenting of the postmodern politics of the pure heart

Sister Vassa (Larin) has begun a podcast series on Psalm 50. When I was a...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

To have been so right, and yet so wrong, about the private consensus (My conversion to liberation theology #3)

This is the third in a series of posts testifying about my conversion to liberation theology....

August 2017

August 02, 2017

‘I see the Blessed Virgin standing next to you’ (Dormition Fast #2)

A few years ago, when I was very single, I used to see a Filipina...

July 2017

July 06, 2017

To be Cantonese in a colonized church

A few weeks ago, I was having pizza and beer with a group of people...

July 03, 2017

Hong Kong, the city that I love, but not where I am from

Though I am not from Hong Kong, it has played a central role in informing...

April 2017

April 17, 2017

Full communion in the fire of the Spirit: Kyivan, Latin, Anglican, Irish, Pascha

I've made no secret that I attended the Easter Vigil at a Latin parish in...

April 16, 2017

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling death by death #Pascha2017

Christ is risen! Христос Воскрес! I have much more to say tomorrow about the Latin service...

April 01, 2017

Great Canon Reflections, Part 2: on Abba Zosima as ‘spiritual father’ and his encounter with Holy Mary of Egypt

This is the second in a series of posts on the Great Canon of St...

March 2017

March 27, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 5): joining the public blogosophere as Chinglican and Religion Ethnicity Wired

This is the fifth post in a series on why I blog with no authority....

March 09, 2017

Why I Blog (Part 3): the Chinglican gag on A Christian Thing

This is the third post in a series on why I blog with no authority....

December 2016

December 16, 2016

By participating in the Umbrella Movement, the Eastern Catholic Church’s gutsyness inspired Vancouver’s younger Chinese evangelicals

In my last post on first encountering a Chinese Canadian Eastern Catholic Jesuit priest at...

December 08, 2016

What’s So Good About Being Eastern Catholic?

When I was blogging as Chinglican at Table at a group blog called A Christian...

August 2016

August 19, 2016

Most Holy Theotokos, save us (Catholicity: Identity and Its Discontents)

This is the first post on my blog to mention the forum 'Catholicity: Identity and...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Does Being Catholic Change How I Write About Pope Francis?

I used to write about Pope Francis from the vantage point of a secular academic who...

July 26, 2016

I’m a person on Patheos!

I'm on Patheos! It is a bit strange to say that, but here I am,...

January 2016

January 11, 2016

Orthodox Wars over Catholic Canterbury for the Anglican Primates

It is 11 January 2016, and the Anglican primates - mammals, yes, but top-dog archbishops...

November 2015

November 01, 2015

The Subject of the Big Jesuit Plot

I've recently begun seeing a Jesuit spiritual director. In light of the big Catholic Twitter...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

In praise of Vicky Beeching, evangelical Anglican (Part 2)

In the spirit of more ancient texts that Churl will appreciate more than the average...

August 23, 2014

In praise of Vicky Beeching, evangelical Anglican (Part 1)

This post was inspired by evangelical Anglican theologian and worship leader Vicky Beeching's coming out...

August 04, 2014

Justin’s Big BC Politics Primer, Part 2: A BC Day Review

The best day to start our Big British Columbia Politics Primer again is British Columbia...

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